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Show "F.d" Ktokea If aVIng-dylng uf old age, and perhaps regrets. In a few days, aa days no, he will crosa to that unknown to which he sent "Jim" KUIr thirty jreari ago. There will be left then of a trio only a woman a broken-clown woman. "Joale" Mansfield. Thirty years a (to. "Josla" Mansfield triumphed over the honor, the business busi-ness affetra, the reputations and the eternal happlucae of "Ed" Stokes and "Jim" Kink. Sue plunged the affairs of the Erie railroad and Jar Gould Into a whirlpool of litigation, scsndel and (llama that ended In murder. Klk la dead, (lould la at real. Stokes la dying. The Mansfield Uvea abroad In Paris. From 1SG0 to 1KG7 "lie lived In Boston Bos-ton In good society, he alwaya claimed. In 1R6T ahe secured a dl- roree from ber husband, a man by the tame of Lawlor, and went upon the Hags. Bhs could not act, but men aould look at ber and her tigress beauty. She appeared In New York, but did not succeed. She solicited an audience with "Jim" Flak. Bhs was aannlleas then and only possessed the I clothes on her hack, but her animal beauty i t-innicx , wild her. He built her a palace at 3i Weal , I Twenty. thin) alien. ,n, there he and jhls friends level.-.l night after night, i 'hern In time came Kdword 8. Stokes. Htokes waa of good birth and : breeding, a Wall street clerk of hand-: hand-: some personality and features, whom , Flak took a fancy to one day and ; mails hlr protege. F!sk thought that Stokes waa about to betray him. He therefore forced i down the stixki In which the latter was Interested. Rtokea was thus al-I al-I most fliiaiii lally rulnd. It waa snld I at the time that the woman In the e told Stokes to kill Fink. ! However this mny have been, Stokes , left her house the afternoon of Jan. I . ITJ. He went to the Grand Can- tral Hotel, where he stationed himself In the corridor of the parlor floor, carelessly walking up and down, and not appearing to be Interested In anything any-thing In particular. The main staircase stair-case waa In front of him. Thus stationed he saw Fink enter and start up the stairs. The latter was seven steps up when he ssw Htoke. his right arm resting on the standard at the head of the stairs, a pistol In his hsnil. Without spesklng Stokes fired twice. The first bullet took effect 111 the abdomen, the second In the left arm. Flsk fell to the floor. Stokes walked away, but waa captured before he could leave the hotel. Flsk waa carried upstairs, and Jay (lould and "llnss" Tweed cams to hit bedside. He died the next day, bu "Josle' Mansfield was not with him. Instead came bis wife and bis brothers, broth-ers, and they remained with him to the end. Colonel "Jim" Flsk was burled with honors such aa New York bestowed upon few men. Tweed blubbered and even Oould cried. Stokee remained In prison. He hired the best counsel la EDWARD 8TOKE3. the lend and waa tried three timet, the last time being convicted of man-slaughtor man-slaughtor In the third degree. Oroier Cleveland pardoned him from prison In 18T7 after he had aerved four years. Something of hla fortune waa left, anl on that he has lived an earth partes ever since. He Is at the home uf a sister, now dying. The Mansfield women fled to Boston after Flnka death. From there she removed to Paris, In 1861 she married mar-ried Robert I- Reade, formerly of Minneapolis Min-neapolis and New York. 8inr.e then she has lived In comparative obscurity. obscur-ity. She Is wealthy most of her money mon-ey came out of Flsk and Stokea. |